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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being encouraged to deliver a roadmap to reopen transborder air travel now that vaccine programs have progressed.

The move comes as a result of the Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) investigation into a joint business agreement that involves Oneworld alliance members American Airlines, British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus and Finnair.

The art of succeeding in the global aircraft duopoly is anticipating and taking advantage of the competitor’s weaknesses.

Six airline CEOs have called on the UK and U.S. governments to set an example to the rest of the world by opening a travel corridor that would prove

Latvian carrier airBaltic has become the latest EU airline to offer a bundled holiday product, following similar pushes by UK LCC easyJet and British Airways (BA).

France and Spain are among the European countries that have updated their coronavirus travel restrictions in the run-up to the summer vacation season.

Qatar Airways will resume service to Sharjah in July four years after a severing of diplomatic ties saw the route suspended in 2017.

Joby Aviation has laid out its road map to achieve type certification of its electric air taxi and obtain its air operator certificate in order to begin commercial aerial ridesharing services in U.S. cities in 2024.

U.S. lessor SKY Leasing has closed a $663 million note offering, generating funds to acquire a portfolio of 16 Airbus and Boeing aircraft which includes 10 A321neos.

Heathrow Airport has integrated sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) into its fuel distribution in a proof of concept that the airport hopes will lead to greater quantities being used in the future.

Airlines based in the EU and ASEAN are set to gain air rights to operate more services between the blocs after negotiations seven years in the making came to fruition.

U.S. antitrust regulators have completed their look at the proposed combination of lessors AerCap and GECAS seemingly without objection.

For a European tourist hotspot, major LCC activity to Croatia was relatively small or non-existent, even before the pandemic hit.

The latest issues holding up Boeing 787 deliveries will be resolved soon, the OEM said, and its target of handing over about 100 aircraft in its inventory by year-end remains realistic.

Pent-up demand coupled with high vaccination rates will spur companies to send employees back on the road.

African carriers lost $10.21 billion in revenue in 2020 and are set to take a further $8.35 billion hit in 2021, with widespread vaccine rollout not expected until 2023.

A consortium led by Paris airports operator Groupe ADP has selected 11 companies for a wide-ranging study, including some on-site testing, exploring the use of hydrogen as aviation fuel.

IATA is saying planned reforms of the Single European Sky (SES) agreed by the European Council “will entrench the failure of monopoly air navigation service providers to tackle emissions, delays and costs.”

The privatization of Air India is still expected to occur this year despite delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a senior government minister.

El Al Israel Airlines is strategizing on how to deal with both the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis and changing market conditions in a post-pandemic environment.

IATA is criticizing EASA’s Safety Directive banning European aircraft from entering Belarusian airspace, following the May 23 forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk.

United Airlines believes dynamics in the post-pandemic domestic market will be different for LCCs looking to capitalize on the shrinking of larger network airlines.

In the latest twist to Boeing’s revised new aircraft development strategy to compete with the Airbus A321XLR, the manufacturer now appears to be exploring a large single-aisle design similar in size and dimensions to the 757.

The European Council has put forward a general approach on the reform of the Single European Sky (SES) aimed at improving European airspace management and its air navigation services system.

Plans for Ecuadorian startup Ecuatoriana Airlines were finalized in late 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic upended the aerospace industry, and prior to the demise of the country’s former flag carrier Tame.